[Ads-l] batshit

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have also encountered "bullshit" in the meaning of "crazy," but only
> since the 1970s.
>
> The 1950 "bat shit" strikes me as unidiomatic and very odd.
>

The comic-strip character, Batson D. Belfry.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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